RF.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.4.3a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.4.3b. Read on-level prose (literature and information texts) and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
RF.4.3c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
ASW: English Language Arts (Newly revised, 2011. Aligned with the Common Core) ASW: Grade 3 RT: READING – TEXTS: Students will comprehend, respond to, and analyze a wide variety of texts.
RT.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RT.1.3a. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RT.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
RT.2.3a (Informational Texts) Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RT.2.3b (Informational Texts) Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RT.2.3 (Literature) Recount stories from diverse cultures, e.g. fables, folktales, and myths; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
RT.3 Analyze how and why personas, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
RT.3.3 (Informational Texts) Using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect, describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
RT.3.3 (Literature) Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RT.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RT.4.3 (Informational Texts) Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases and differentiate between fact and opinion in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
RT.4.3 (Literature) Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
RT.5 Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RT.5.3 (Informational Texts) Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks, graphs) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
RT.5.3 (Literature) Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
RT.6 Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
RT.6.3 (Informational Texts) Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
RT.6.3 (Literature) Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
RT.7 Integrate, compare and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RT.7.3 (Informational Texts) Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
RT.7.3 (Literature) Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
RT.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
RT.8.3 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text
RT.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
RT.9.3 (Informational Texts) Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two similar and/or different texts (e.g. narrative nonfiction, electronic texts, magazine articles, etc…) on the same topic.
RT.9.3 (Literature) Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
RT.10 Read and apply comprehension strategies to comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
RT.10.3 (Informational Texts) By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RT.10.3 (Literature) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
RT.11 Determine the purposes and characteristics of a variety of genres. (In each grade level students will be assessed in fiction, informational/nonfiction (including electronic texts), poetry and/or drama, and a study of an author or an author’s style.)
RT.11.3 (Informational Texts) Describe the unique characteristics of nonfiction texts.
RT.11.3 (Literature) Describe the unique characteristics of mysteries.
ASW: Grade 3 RF: READING - FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
RF: Students will read fluently using the skills and strategies of the reading process.
ASW: Grade 3 RT: READING – TEXTS: Students will comprehend, respond to, and analyze a wide variety of texts.